Previously on the Internet with Haley Hoffman

Every week at TEDs New York office, one media team staffer shares 5 things on the web that intrigued, shocked or amused them. We call it: Previously on the Internet. Here are this weeks finds, from Haley Hoffman, TEDs product team consultant.

Lets agree to call them InstaGrahamsThe online sweet shop Baking for Good has pioneered a way to turn your favorite cameraphone snapshots into delicious sugar cookies (photo above). Buying a dozen for $36 you can use one to six photos per batch does good for others too: Baking for Good donates 15% of its proceeds to a cause of your choice.

Are some languages spoken faster?Haley was fascinated by this weeks Lexicon Valley podcast on Slate.com, which delved into the question: Are some languages spoken more quickly than others, or does it just seem that way when you are not a native speaker? The podcast surfaced a study published in 2011 that looked at the relationship between speech rate and the density of information encoded in it.

Kickstarting a desktop 3D printer
Imagine a printer that can print objects trinkets, jewelry, whatever you like. That is what FormLabs, a spinoff of the MIT Media Lab, has been working on for the past year. Posted on Kickstarter a week ago, the Form 1 printer has already raised $1,442,802.